Interchangeable locking-border.



I. s. VOORHBES. INTEROHANGEABLE LOOKING BORDER.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 30, 1908.

919,094, Patented Apr.20, 1909.

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INTERCHANGEABLE LOOKING-BORDER;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 30, 1908.

Patented April 20, 1909.

Serial No. 460,280.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN STANLEY Voon- HEES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of .Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Interchangeable Locking-Border, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to printing and its object is to provide a new and improved interchangeable locking border, arranged to readily connect the border pieces with each other, and to securely hold the same in place, to allow of conveniently interchanging and connecting border pieces of different length, for forming narrow or wide borders for columns of different width and for long or short matter to be inclosed by the border, the arrangement also serving to allow the set up type and its border to be set aside for future use without requiring tying of the border by the use of cords, bands or the like.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improvement as arranged for a narrow column, parts being in section; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same arranged for a wide column; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one end of a border member and the joint fastener in position thereon; Fig. 4 is a side elevation partly in section, of one end of one of the border pieces; Fig. 5 is an inverted plan View of the improvement as arranged for mitered border pieces.

The border illustrated in Fig. 1 consists of border pieces A, A and A A removably fastened together at the corners by joint fasteners B, one for each corner, and each joint fastener being made from a single piece of sheet metal bent to provide the members B", B standing at a right angle to each other, the free ends of the members B, B terminating in angular lugs B B bent inwardly at right an les to the corresponding members B and B as plainly indicated in Fig. 3.

The border pieces A, A, A and A are provided on the top with a suitable printin face, and the ends of the border pieces and A are rovided at the under side with longitudinal y-extending slots C and similar slots C are formed at the under side of the ends of the border pieces A A as plainly indicated in Figs. 1 and 3. The cross slots 0 intersecting the longitudinal slots 0 are formed in the border pieces A and A, and two cross slots C 0 intersecting the corresponding longitudinal slots 0 are formed at each end of each of the border pieces A A Now in order to assemble the border pieces A, A, A and A the ends of the border pieces A, A are abutted against the inner faces of the border pieces A A as plainly shown in Fig. 1, and with the border pieces arranged on a table upside down, and then a joint fastener B is applied to each corner of the border by placing the joint fastener in position so that its members B, B engage the longitudinal slots 0, and the angular lugs B, B engage the cross slots C C the member B also passing through the cross slot C", as will be readily understood by reference to Figs. 1 and 3. The slots are of such depth and the side members B, B are of such length that when the joint fasteners B are pushed in place their lower faces are flush with the under side of the border members A, A, A A (see Fig. 3).

In practice, the slots in the border pieces are out by rotary cutters, as indicated in Fig. 4, and the side members B, B are preferably beveled so as to fitthe segmental slots or cuts made bythe rotary cutters. Now by the arrangement described, the borders A, A, A and A are securely fastened together at the corners by joint fasteners, which do not in the least interfere with the printing faces of the border members, and which can be readily rotated whenever it is desired to disassemble the border.

It will be seen that the border members of different length when provided with the slots referred to can be readily fastened together by the joint fasteners B for instance, as shown in Fig. 2, the same border pieces A and A are connected with border members A A of reater length than the border members A so as to form a border for a wider column. In a like manner several border pieces A, A may be fastened to the border members A A or the border members A, A for inclosing type to form a short column.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 5, the adjacent border members A, A are fitted together at their ends at a miter, and in this case the slot C is omitted, but otherwise the fastener B is applied in the same manner for fastening the border members together. In each of the cases mentioned the joint fasteners B are alike. By fastening the border pieces together in the manner described, the border with the type held therein can be readily set aside for future use Without tying the border by the use of bands, cords or the like. Although I have shown the fasteners B particularly applied to border pieces for containing type for surrounding electroplates and the like, it is evident that the joint fasteners may be used for fastening the members of picture frames, signs and the like together.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In combination, a border having sides and ends abutting one on the other at the terminals, each of the sides and ends having longitudinal and transverse slots at the underside at the terminals of the said sides and ends, the transverse slots intersecting the said longitudinal slots, and angular joint fasteners engaging the said longitudinal slots and having integral angular lugs engaging the said cross slots, the undersides of the said joint fasteners being flush with the undersides of the said sides and ends.

2 A printers interchangeable locking border, comprising separate and interchangeable border sides and border ends abutting one on the other at the terminals and each of the said sides and ends being rovided with a printing face and with ongitudinal and transverse slots at the under side at the terminals of the said sides and ends the said transverse slots intersecting the said longitudinal slots, and angular joint fasteners engaging the said longitudinal slots and having integral angular lugs engaging the said cross slots, the under sides of the said joint fasteners being flush with the under sides of the said sides and ends.

3. An interchangeable looking border, comprising border sides, border ends, and a joint fastener for removably connecting the adjacent ends of the said sides and ends, the border sides and ends having their terminals provided with longitudinally-extending slots and one terminal at each corner having a cross slot and the adjacent terminal having spaced cross slots, the said joint fastener being made from a single piece of sheet metal bent to form right angle members for engagement with the said longitudinal slots and with the outermost cross slot, the said joint fastener terminating in inwardly-extending lugs for engagement with the re maining cross slots.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN STANLEY VOORHEES Witnesses:

CORDELIA M. VOORHEES, HOWARD J. MILLER. 

